All over the world there are so many different people, cultures and experiences. Couchsurfing looks like the best way to know them:)

Music: Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Nouvelle Vague, Lhasa de Sela, The Doors, The Animals, Vanessa Paradis, Ray Charles, The Zombies, Nirvana, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Ella Fitzgerald, Cole Porter etc. Movies: Wes Anderson, Lars von Trier, Krzysztof Zanussi, Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Woody Allen, Jan Svankmajer, Bernardo Bertolucci, Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino and in general good movies :) Books: J.R.R. Tolkien, Alice Munro, Mikhail Bulgakov, Paul Auster, Truman Capote, George Orwell, Alberto Moravia, William Wharton, Vladimir Nabokov, Ursula K. Le Guin, Andrzej Sapkowski and soooo much more...